A bit of an unconventional show, with lots of great moments and a few headscratchers. Fluffhead in the 3 spot signaled good things to come, with a run of 1.0/2.0 songs filling out the rest of Set 1. The Gumbo was spicy with a great jam out of it before letting Page get his ragtime on at the end. Pebbles is always welcome, and Roggae was exactly what I needed on a hot sweaty night. The interplay between all four of them during the jam as they kept changing the key was really something to behold. Ginseng was rusty, Geulah was fun, Julius kicked up the energy quite a bit, though with some flubs it seemed Trey didn't want to end the set on that note, and so a truly demented Melt was the proper closer. It felt like it could completely spin out of control at any moment as the alien noisescape overwhelmed the crowd, barely kept in place by Fish's drums, until they brought it back to its usual end.

Set 2...was very bipolar. Getting a Curtain With, a song I've been chasing for 22 years, as a 2nd set opener for the first time since 1988 was a treat, and was played excellently. Once AWOH started up, I knew we were in for a good jam. Churning and pulsating, I was wondering if it was going to approach the previous night's Sand in length, but unfortunately came down into what seemed like 20 Years Later, though Trey shook it off to play Mercy. Nice song...wrong moment. Thankfully Simple picked it back up and went big. The crowd seemingly caught the Macarena tease all at once, and thus ensured this version will be remembered for a long time. Ether Edge followed as another cool down moment initially with a nice jam that dropped perfectly into a blistering Maze with some extra mustard during Page and Trey's solos. Trey seemed determined to play 20 Years Later so that he could make the lyric change, I guess. Another decent jam that melted into a rip-roaring Antelope to close out the set.

By this point I was worried about the thunderstorms moving into the area, but they showed no such concerns, encoring with YEM to close out the night in a positive way. It was wild to watch as Trey's guitar dropped out at exactly the moment when the First Note should have been hit, as he and his tech frantically tried to figure out what went wrong. Maybe they were always planning to do the extra jam at the end, but maybe the guitar issues made Trey want to do it. Either way, a phenomenal conclusion to the night, and a solid show overall.